It produces
nausea and vomiting, is an active cathartic and diuretic, and stimulates
the liver, increasing the flow of bile.

Allies :- ►

Aloe,
Sulph., Sang., Bry., Pod., Phyto.

Generalities :- ►

Malaise with
the neuralgia. ► Feeling as if he had taken cold, with lameness of
trunk and lumbar region. ► Languor ; in morning on
rising ; in afternoon, with feverishness.

Mind :- ►

Irritable ; in
morning on waking. ► Displeased with everybody and everything, then
lively and active. ► Depressed. ► Despondency, thinking that
he is going to be very sick, alternating with disposition to laugh at his
fears. ► Dullness of mind and special senses. ► Inability to
fix mind. ► Memory weak.

Head :- ►

Aching ; in
morning after being in cold air and on quick motion, agg. forehead and
vertex, as if top of head would come off, agg. cough ; with pain in
bowels ; with depression of spirits and debility ; nervous,
gastric, in forenoon ; stunning, with neuralgia ; dull, stupid.
► Fulness. ► Heaviness, with dullness of eyes and pain over
left superciliary ridge. ► Dullness (resembling vertigo).
► Feeling as if brain were partially narcotized, then cutting
through temples. ► Intoxicated feeling at 7 A.M.
► Dizziness ; with pressure in forehead ; then lightness
of head ; sudden ; sudden, when walking in-doors.

Forehead :- ►

Pain ; over
eyes ; at 6 P.M., and in posterior
fontanelle ; in evening, with occasional vertigo ;
intermittent ; changing from side to side ; dull, heavy (Sulph.).
► Tightness across. ► Sensation of a band across (Carbol.
ac.), on attempting to laugh and preventing laughing.

Temples :- ►

Shooting ;
through ; from right to left part of occiput. ► Cutting through
T., with dim vision. ► Sharp pains. ► Pain ; in right,
then it passed over vertex and behind left ear ; heavy.

►

Pain in vertex. ► Boring in right
parietal protuberance, causing him to bend head. ► Pain in right
parietal protuberance, becoming a hammering pain, agg. movement, amel.
continued movement, returning during rest. ► Stitching in lower part
of occiput, agg. right side. ► Pain at posterior fontanelle. ►
On vertex, twenty-six pustules tender to touch, on inflamed
base, with red streaks running from one to another, and containing yellow
matter. ► Constrictive feeling in scalp.

Clinical :- ►

Neuralgic headaches are very frequently cured by this drug ; they
are generally one-sided, are associated with gastric symptoms, are, as a
rule, periodic, occurring every few days, are nearly always associated
with blurring of vision and frequently with vomiting ; the pain
usually begins over one eye.

Flushed. ►
Appearance of anguish. ► Neuralgia in right
side, waking, agg. infraorbital nerve, with stitches in two carious teeth,
next day facial neuralgia involving supra and infraorbital and superior
maxillary and inferior dental nerves began after breakfast, with stupid
stunning headache, next day began after breakfast, with malaise and
headache, next day soreness where the neuralgia had been (Bry.).
► Lips dry and cracked.

Mouth :- ►

Toothache ; in
warm room. ► Teeth sore ; and feel elongated. ► Elongated
and sore feeling in molars, with heavy pain. ► Swelling of gums on
inner side of left lower molars. ► Tongue coated white. ►
Tongue and gums feel greasy or slimy in morning. ► Feeling of a
greasy coat on mouth and tongue in morning. ► Tongue feels thick at
7 A.M. ► Mouth and
tongue feel scalded in morning ; in mouth at 4 A.M.,
tongue rough and thick. ► Raw feeling on roof behind incisors, agg.
cold or hot drinks, eating, touching with tongue, agg. onions or cheese,
with feeling as if skin of that part hung loose, the rugæ of mouth
enlarged, pale, and two on right side excoriated, afterwards the rawness
and feeling of loose skin extended to throat, afterwards rawness behind
incisors after eating cherries in morning. ► Soreness of hard
palate ; agg. touch of tongue or solid food, with roughness, with
pain in a defective filled tooth, which felt too long and was tender when
used. ► Feeling as if on fire, and in stomach ; in back part of
mouth and fauces in afternoon, with flow of saliva. ► Burning and
smarting of palate and fauces. ► Profuse
saliva (Merc.) ; ropy
S. (Phyto.) drops
from mouth during conversation. ► Taste peppery ; on
forward half of tongue, and acid ; acrid T. ; flat ; flat
at 7 A.M. ; bad ; lost.

Throat :- ►

Tonsils, uvula and
soft palate bright red and larger vessels engorged. ► Rawness.
► Soreness, and of chest ; S., agg. around epiglottis, with raw
feeling, hoarseness, stuffed up, smarting in posterior nares, as from a
recent cold, increased secretion in nose. ► Roughness, with running
of saliva. ► Burning ; in fauces ; in fauces during
expiration ; in fauces, palate, tonsils and back of tongue, agg.
expiration, amel. inspiration ; in fauces on inspiration, extending
to tip of tongue, agg. expiration. ► Heat in fauces, soft palate and
tonsils, changing to smarting and burning. ► Smarting of soft
palate, with burning and scratching, increasing to fiery heat, spreading
over fauces, upward towards nares and far into sophagus, the throat felt
three times as large as usual and like a fiery cavern, the B. temporarily
amel. drinking water, enlarged bright red vessels on uvula, palate and
posterior wall of fauces. ► Swallowing difficult when eating, food
sticks in pharynx. ► Spasms of sophagus, with inability to
swallow, food sticks in throat, with choking and gagging. ► Burning
in sophagus ; with nausea.

Pain in right hypochondrium when
walking. ► Rumbling in umbilical region in afternoon ; R. in U.
and hypogastric regions, with desire for stool, soft, painless
stool ; R. in U. and hypogastric regions, waking at 4 A.M.,
with distress and desire for stool, copious watery stool, which could not
be retained a moment without pain, at 8 A.M.,
another watery stool, with rumbling. ► Intermittent pain in U.
region at 5 P.M. ► Uterine pain in shocks from
U. to epigastric region, then nausea, straining, belching of wind, with
commotion and rumbling above seat of pain. ► Pain above crests of
ilia ; along posterior part of right crest ; P. in right, then
left flank in afternoon, with urging to stool.

Clinical :- ►

Flatulent colic, with constipation, especially in children. ►
Derangements of the liver, with yellow eyes and skin, numbness of right
arm, nausea, headache, etc. ► Bilious colic, almost incessant
vomiting of extremely acrid substances, with soreness over the liver.
► Soreness over the region of the liver, with cutting pains and
vomiting of bile, which is very acrid and burns the sophagus.

Rectum and Anus :- ►

►
Burning in anus after stool (Aloe, Sul.).
► Anussorein morning, as if points were sticking in it
(Ign., Æsc.). ►
Distress in anus as if prolapsed. ► Disposition to stool,
with burning in anus. ► Urged to a second stool by sensation as if
wind distended rectum, amel. discharge of a little greenish dark water,
with burning in anus (See Aloe and Sulph.).

Stool :- ►

►
Frequent, watery, with burning in anus (Bry.),
disposition to strain and bear down (Sulph.),
pain in epigastric and umbilical regions, rumbling in abdomen, faintness,
knees weak and trembling, sometimes with blood and mucus, once with water
and undigested food, at last mucous membrane of anus prolapsed and smarting,
abdomen tender to pressure, flying pains through abdomen. ►
Watery, through, the day. ► Six dysenteric, at night,
with pain and rumbling in lower abdomen (Sulph.).
► Diarrha ; after breakfast, then pain in epigastrium ;
then pain in umbilical region ; with colic ; with rumbling and
cutting in hypogastrium ; sudden, after supper. ► Mushy,
copious, light-colored. ► Papescent ; with rumbling in
abdomen ; with pain in umbilical region ; painless, with
rumbling ; yellow, painless, with rumbling,
also large. ► Constipation.
► Hard, lumpy. ► Greenish-black, twice in one day.

Clinical :- ►

Diarrha,
with burning in anus as if on fire and burning all through the
gastro-intestinal tract, the stools are generally very thin, preceded by
colic. ► A very valuable remedy for constipation, especially with
recurring sick headaches and gastric symptoms.

Glans swollen
and red. ► Emission at night ; with amorous dreams. ►
Menses three days late and scanty.

Respiratory Organs :- ►

Much
hawking and clearing of larynx ; frequent and painful H. of touch
mucus from larynx. ► A lump of mucus rattled up and down trachea, it
was expectorated with a sweetish, offensive taste at 10 A.M.,
obstruction and catarrhal soreness of air-passages, frequent hawking,
cough, with soreness in trachea and tickling. ► Hoarseness ;
with sharp, acrid feeling near epiglottis. ► Short, dry cough from
tickling in larynx ; hacking C. in morning without expectoration,
with soreness in larynx anteriorly. ► Expectoration of phlegm in
morning. ► Short breath.

Chest :- ►

Rattling of mucus not
to be raised by hawking. ► Cramp in left side under ribs ; in
left side like a knife, then darting pain in abdomen. ► Pain in left
; as if ribs were pressing upon lower part of lung, inability to take a
long breath for the sticking cutting in left lung ; P. in pectoralis
major, agg. during motion and in evening. ► Constriction ;
about sternum ; at middle of sternum. ► Soreness from nipple to
nipple in morning with tender painful spot on right border of sternum and
pain on inspiration. ► Tickling under top of sternum, waking at
night, with cough dry and distressing, because nothing could be raised nor
the tickling be reached, rattling of phlegm low in sophagus.

Pain ; agg.
walking. ► Stiffness in morning, agg. on sitting down. ►
Weariness. ► Pain behind left scapula. ► Stiffness of
trapezius ; all forenoon, causing constant shrugging of shoulders and
desire to twist head from side to side ; S. of right latissimus dorsi
on motion. ► Tearing in lumbar region on rising, so that he can
become erect only gradually. ► Crampy pain in right loin in evening,
causing sweat. ► Pain in right kidney. ► Pain in lumbar region
all day while sewing ; P. in lumbar region, agg. motion ; and in
sacral region, so that it is almost impossible to walk ; heavy P.
► Weakness in lower part of back.

Extremities :- ►

Tearing in right
hip, knee and shoulders. ► Pain through the day ; neuralgic P.
like constriction around left upper arm, forearm and thigh ;
rheumatic, in right arm and right knee, agg. motion ; stinging,
rheumatic, in elbows, forearms and knees ; tensive, in all joints,
mostly the smaller, shifting about rapidly, agg. from supper till
bed-time.

Upper Extremities :- ►

Stinging
in right shoulder ; during motion, agg.
raising arm, with tension. ► Rheumatic pain in right shoulder, agg.
motion, especially raising arm. ► Sharp pains in
shoulder, arms, agg. left index. ► Sharp pain near outside of left
arm on moving it. ► Lameness of upper arm, with soreness to touch,
the L. soon extended to shoulders and nape, like rheumatism after taking
cold, the L. and stiffness amel. night. ► Cutting in elbows and
biceps, with contusive lame feeling. ► Heaviness of hands and elbows
as after wine ; H. of hands and elbows, with pains between shoulders,
which settle in right upper arm. ► Pain in metacarpal joints of hand
and in muscles of right arm, agg. motion and evening.

Fingers :- ►

Shifting shooting in
phalangeal and metacarpo-phalangeal joints, agg. evening and motion.
► Cutting in metacarpo-phalangeal joint of right thumb. ►
Sharp pain along left side of first. ► Sharp pain along left side of
first phalanx of right middle, then in left middle fingers, then in left
axilla, occurring frequently. ► Pain ; in last joint of left
middle ; in right phalanges when writing, and in end of right index.

Lower Extremities :- ►

Weakness
and pain so that walking was almost impossible. ► Sciatic
pain ; frequent, as if left hip were
wrenched or forced to remain long in an awkward position ;
S. twinges as if hip were wrenched, then burning aching ; S. twinges
behind left trochanter in morning when writing, with lameness. ►
Coxalgia in left hip in evening on walking. ► Pain in left
hip ; when walking ; in left thigh. ►
Painful drawing and lameness behind left trochanter, extending to
popliteal space in evening, causing limping. ► Sudden
rheumatic lameness in femoral region posteriorly in morning when
exercising, causing limping, then shooting posteriorly down thigh to foot
on every motion, agg. walking, amel. 4 P.M., next
morning pain in left sciatic nerve only on walking, with increased
soreness and with weakness of left leg, violent exercise does not increase
the pain more than moderate exertion. ► Pain when walking in right,
then left knee. ► Knees weak and trembling. ► Pain in calves
when walking, agg. right. ► Sticking in right foot. ► Sharp
pain in first joint of right great toe when walking.

Clinical :- ►

Sciatica of the left side, of a burning character, shooting down to the
foot, greatly agg. motion (Bry.).

Skin :- ►

Pimples like
mosquito-bites ; pimple on left middle finger, next day the
inflammation extended over hand, then great pain, it was opened but no pus
found, but it afterwards formed and discharged through the opening, which
penetrated as far as bone, a fungous growth around edges had taken place
meanwhile, pain extended up arm, appearance of a malignant boil,
disposition to a similar formation on index, sweat with the pain in
finger. ► Boils of back, face and hand. ► Vesicles on right
wrist, which formed into pustules, depressed in centre, then crusts.
► Itching of face, agg. warmth from exercise.

Clinical :- ►

Herpes
zoster of right side ; psoriasis, eczema ; impetigo of the
head ; all these symptoms associated with the gastric derangement
and other symptoms of the drug.

Sleep :- ►

Sleepiness ; with
chills down back ; with dullness and dizziness ; in daytime,
fell asleep when reading, dreamed of dissecting a woman who was hanging by
the heels in my office, woke frightened, tried to get up to shut the door
but could not, real nightmare. ► Night restless ; with dreams
of fighting, etc. ; with awful dreams of the dead ; with dreams
of digging up corpses, and finally fell into a grave which woke me in
fright ; with dreams of snakes and everything bad ; with amorous
dreams and emissions. ► Sleep disturbed by startings. ► Early
waking ; with dry mouth and general depression. ► Frightful
dreams. ► Dreams of suffocation.

Fever :- ►

General chill at
night. ► Heat ; with itching in various parts ; general,
then chill, with cold hands and feet ; of skin ; of head, with
flushing of face ; of hands all day, with dryness of them ; of
palms. ► General sweat, agg. in groins.